Photos of the Year 2008

December 1, 2008

Dan DeLong

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Elmer and Joan Lindseth leave the Washington Mutual branch at 4501 California Ave SW in West Seattle on Friday, September 26, 2008. Elmer Lindsweth, who has been a WaMu customer for 30 years, expressed little concern for his money held by the bank saying, "Heck, it's covered by the FDIC." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer/Dan DeLong)
COMMENTS: The day after WAMU was seized by the US Office of Thrift Supervision, I made this frame of longtime West Seattle customers passing a mural depicting a happier time in the bank's 119-year history. The closure of WAMU is the largest bank failure in American financial history.

Dan DeLong

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Elmer and Joan Lindseth leave the Washington Mutual branch at 4501 California Ave SW in West Seattle on Friday, September 26, 2008. Elmer Lindsweth, who has been a WaMu customer for 30 years, expressed little concern for his money held by the bank saying, "Heck, it's covered by the FDIC." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer/Dan DeLong)
COMMENTS: The day after WAMU was seized by the US Office of Thrift Supervision, I made this frame of longtime West Seattle customers passing a mural depicting a happier time in the bank's 119-year history. The closure of WAMU is the largest bank failure in American financial history.